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You will see this and you can't see it anymore. >> this is in the horseshoe casino. they go around it. >> down here, they are bringing in dirt. the water is coming through underneath. seeping under the levee, that is correct. i don't know what the engineering term is. the los angeles, it's coming up the mississippi. the only other one i know of is collapsed or something.
Now all of them destroyed a string of different home sites and camps on this side of the levee and they are washed out. >> yeah. >> 330 homes total? we saw one that just barely was out of the water. >> you look at 99% are under water. >> can you see any possibility of people coming back? these houses are destroyed. >> they are destroyed. >> the local management said up to 330, 25 had flood insurance? >> correct. >> have you seen water on these streets at all? >> it would be water to the base of the levee, but that's as far. if there was a home here that was not built up, it may get water up to...
Re-enter the buildings. >> i will ask doug to turn his camera into the parking lot here. when people see this water they see flooding water and a bidding behind it. explain to us, this is a parking lot. this is eight, ten feet of water here? >> this is a parking lot almost to where we are standing here. it's normally 2,500 parking spaces and about 7 1/2 to 8 feet deep. remarkable. never seen anything like it. nothing prepares you for it. you have to see it to believe it. >> mr. mayor, have you seen anything like this, not just here but throughout the community? >> no. this is the worst we've e...
The river doesn't actually go through. the homes are set. all this land at the levee, normally completely dry. this is dry land. you have never seen it like this. the thing about these houses, all them houses are like 8 to 10 and they're built up in the air. they are on 8, 10, 15 feet and that water is right up the river. you are looking at 20 to 25 feet of water. >> hard to understand sometimes. much of what you are seeing, most of that water is not supposed to be there. that is supposed to be dry parkland and dry neighborhoods a view from above when we come back, a view from boat level becau...
Boat. i went through today. the truth to those families is they are not going back onto those homes. >> fema and mema will make the determines when they can go back into the homes. it's devastating and painful to watch the slow rise of the water. we can't start the recovery and you can't start the healing process until the water goes down. that is the part that is painful. for their safety and the safety of others, they are not allowed back in there. the last flood, there was not a forced evacuation and we did have loss of life. we are fortunate this time we did not have any loss of life conce...